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Merkel indignant over German agent spying for US


RT.com
Mon, 07 Jul 2014 17:58 UTC
Merkel
© Reuters/Francois Lenoir
Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said allegations of a German working as a double agent for the US intelligence are "serious" and if proven correct contradict the spirit of bilateral cooperation.

Merkel on Monday joined in a chorus of German politicians voicing their concern over the arrest of a German intelligence employee for allegedly spying for the US.

"If the reports are correct it would be a serious case," Reuters cited Merkel as saying. "If the allegations are true, it would be for me a clear contradiction as to what I consider to be trusting cooperation between agencies and partners."

Berlin is now waiting for explanations from the White House. German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said Sunday that giving prompt clarification of the details in the case was in the "US's own interest." Earlier, US Ambassador to Germany John B. Emerson was summoned to the German Foreign Office.

Washington has not yet commented on the matter, however.

Comment: It looks as if this 'indignation' is little more than an attempt to pacify the masses. The US via the NSA and CIA have been spying on Germany for years. The economic trump card of a free trade deal will give the US a pass on this latest scandal, apparently.

NSA and CIA have been tapping all communication in Berlin's government district for at least 10 years: Der Spiegel
Merkel's public indignation a scam: Snowden says Germans and other Western states in bed with NSA

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Chess

Political analyst claims ISIL militants could become catalyst for Russia-China-US war


Press TV
Mon, 07 Jul 2014 00:00 UTC
ISIL militant army
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Propaganda image of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant.
A political analyst says the ISIL terrorists can become a catalyst for a war engulfing the region and spilling over across the world, Press TV reports.

Speaking in an interview with Press TV, Bill Jones, from the Executive Intelligence Review, said the Takfiri ISIL militants pose no direct but certainly an indirect "big threat" to the United States.
"Given the situation in the Middle East if the ISIL would create a radical Islamic state in the region, then that becomes a catalyst for what can become a much more widespread war and chaos involving not only the regional powers but given the interest of other international powers in the region including Russia, China, the United States, we are looking at some pretty serious conflicts between these great powers," Jones added.
He emphasized that any success of the ISIL cult would have "a very important indirect effect" on the US and on the rest of the countries in the Eurasian region.

The analyst urged all regional countries to create "a fabric of stability" which has been consistently undermined by the US.
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House arrest: Israeli court refuses to jail brutally beaten 15yo Palestinian-American


RT
Sun, 06 Jul 2014 16:36 UTC
Tarek Abu Khdeir
© Reuters/Ronen Zvulun
Tarek Abu Khdeir (C), a 15-year-old American of Palestinian descent and a cousin of Mohammad Abu Khdeir, the recently murdered youth, is escorted by Israeli prison guards during an appearance at Jerusalem magistrate's court July 6, 2014.
The brutally beaten, 15-year-old US-Palestinian cousin of murdered teen Mohammad Abu Khdeir has been placed under house arrest, despite police demands to keep him in custody. Tarek Abu Khdeir was accused of attacking police officers at a protest.


Comment: The Israelis are more notorious at faking that they've 'been attacked' and grossly exaggerating threats to their safety than professional soccer players. Just looking at an Israeli military or police officer, or not doing anything at all, is enough for them to get hysterical, flip out, and cry about their lives being in 'mortal danger.' It's all BS.


An Israeli court ruled that Tarek Abu Khdeir should be subject to house arrest in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Hanina on Sunday. Court spokeswoman Luba Samri said that police had asked the judge to extend the remand of the teenager, claiming that he attacked police officers during violent protests over the death of his cousin, 16-year-old Palestinian boy Mohammad Abu Khdeir.

Tarek's parents maintained his innocence and claim Israeli police officers committed an unprovoked attack on their son while he was handcuffed. On Saturday a video, showing how two officers violently beat Abu Khdeir while he was lying on the floor, appeared on local television, provoking outrage and condemnation on social media.

Following the uproar, the US government released a statement expressing deep concern over the incident.

"We can confirm that Tarek Khdeir, an American citizen, is being held by Israeli authorities in Jerusalem. [Tarek Abu Khdeir] was visited by an official from the US Consulate General in Jerusalem today," US State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said in a statement, adding that the US was profoundly troubled by the reports.


Comment: You can bet Khdeir wouldn't have gotten just house arrest if he wasn' an American citizen.

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Vader

Tiny dictator: Obama asks Cabinet for 'creative' (unconstitutional) use of executive powers

Justin Sink
Whitehouse Whispers
Sun, 06 Jul 2014 16:23 UTC
Obama

What democracy?
President Obama on Tuesday asked his Cabinet to help him find more ways to use his executive powers.

"You've already seen the power of some of our executive actions making a real difference for ordinary families," Obama said at a White House meting. "We're going to have to be creative about how we can make real progress."

The president is increasingly relying on executive orders and regulatory moves to move his agenda, despite opposition from House Republicans, who have threatened to sue him over his executive actions, and the Supreme Court, which ruled last week that Obama's recess appointments were unconstitutional.

The president has raised the minimum wage for federal contractors, and is using regulatory actions to impose tough new carbon emission limits on power plants.


Comment: Carbon emission limits are total nonsense: CO2 does not cause global warming! However, if only we could slap a carbon emission limit on the CO2 Obama expels ever time he opens his mouth to speak, that would be legislation worth passing.

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Phoenix

Israeli settlers confess to burning Palestinian teen alive


PressTV
Mon, 07 Jul 2014 16:13 UTC
abu khdeir
A group of six Israeli settlers, who have been arrested in connection with the murder of a Palestinian teenager in East al-Quds (Jerusalem), have reportedly confessed to their crime.

The Israelis were arrested early on Sunday over the death of 16-year old Muhammad Abu Khdeir.

They have admitted to kidnapping the Palestinian teen from a neighborhood of East al-Quds and killing him.

Palestinian sources said on Saturday that postmortem examination findings have shown that Abu Khdeir was burned alive and hit with a blunt object on the head.

The brutal death of the Palestinian teenager has sparked a wave of protests across the occupied territories.

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Family

True scale of abuse in child living care revealed in major study

Emily Dugan
The Independent, UK
Sun, 06 Jul 2014 15:37 UTC
'Shocking' findings spark calls by campaigners for better monitoring
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© Alamy
In residential care the rate of substantiated abuse claims is significantly higher than for foster families.
One in every hundred children living in care is abused every year in Britain, according to the most comprehensive study conducted into the issue.

The research by York University and the NSPCC is the first of its kind to uncover and analyse local authority records on abuse in foster and residential care.

Academics tracked abuse allegations - and their outcomes - between 2009 and 2012. They found that on average there are between 450 and 550 cases of proven abuse every year in foster care and between 250 and 300 cases of confirmed abuse a year in residential care.

In residential care the rate of substantiated abuse claims is significantly higher than for foster families, with an average of between two and three proven cases per 100 children. Steve McCabe, the shadow minister for Children and Families called the findings "shocking", saying that the conclusions of the report "suggests that the current level of supervision, scrutiny and inspection is woefully inadequate".

Comment: Across the globe child abuse is frequently ignored and under-reported. These children are going to spend the rest of their lives dealing with the aftermath of living in such pathological environments.
  • Child Abuse, Most Goes Unreported: Study
"All tyrannical systems depend on the apathy and moral relativism of the inhabitants within their borders. Without the cooperation of the public, these systems cannot function. The real question is, how many of the above steps will be taken before we finally refuse to conform? At what point will each man and woman decide to break free from the dark path blazed before us and take measures to ensure their independence? Who will have the courage to develop their own communities, their own alternative economies, their own organizations for mutual defense outside of establishment constructs, and who will break under the pressure to bow like cowards? How many will hold the line, and how many will flee?"
The Essential Rules Of Tyranny

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Eye 2

Leading British opposition party politicians under investigation for channeling public funds to elite pedophile network

Guy Adams & Michael Seamark
Daily Mail, UK
Tue, 18 Feb 2014 09:43 UTC
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Sick puppies: Harriet Harman and husband Jack Dromey. They were leading officials in the NCCL, which was linked to predatory pedophile group PIE
  • Harriet Harman, Jack Dromey and Patricia Hewitt linked to vile group
  • They were key figures at National Council for Civil Liberties (NCCL)
  • The NCCL was an 'affiliate' of the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE)
  • PIE members may have abused children on an 'industrial scale'
The full extent of the shocking links between three senior Labour figures and a vile group that tried to legalise sex with children can be exposed today.

The trio held key roles in a human rights organisation that supported the notorious Paedophile Information Exchange.

Labour's deputy leader Harriet Harman, her husband, home affairs spokesman Jack Dromey, and former health secretary Patricia Hewitt were all leading officials in the National Council for Civil Liberties.

Astonishingly this Left-wing group granted 'affiliate' status to PIE and built close links with it.

The group of predatory paedophiles was calling for the age of consent to be cut to just four.

Comment: The Daily Mail is right to highlight these three central figures in the Labor governments of the 90s and 2000s and their alleged involvement in institutionalizing pedophilia from the top down, but this phenomenon spans the entire political-media-security-financial-entertainment establishment in the UK, so this may be part of an effort by the incumbent right-wing Tory government to deflect attention from its members' roles:

British celebrity icon Jimmy Savile sexually abused up to a thousand children on BBC premises

Forget Savile, pedophiles are everywhere in the British entertainment industry

Jimmy Savile scandal exposes pedophile network at heart of British establishment

Update 7 July 2014

...and now we can add another iconic BBC TV children's presenter, artist Rolf Harris:

Rolf Harris gets 6 years for sexually abusing multiple children, third iconic BBC children's TV presenter-pedophile sentenced in two years

But he was just a sacrificial lamb to the wolves... the real scandal surfacing again in the UK is an interlocking network of pedophiles in the Houses of Parliament and the City of London:

About 40 politicians on UK pedophile ring: Report

Home Office 'loses' pedophile dossier naming 'big names'

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Dollar

Pathological parasites: Obamas have spent $44 million tax dollars on travel and vacations

Ariel Cohen
Wealthydebates.com
Sun, 06 Jul 2014 14:13 UTC
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The Obamas have spent over 44 million dollars in taxpayer money on travel and vacations. Some are even calling him the "most well-trvaeled, expensive" president in our nation's history.

As Americans head off for the long holiday weekend, let's take a look back at some of the president's holiday spending.

Our president vacations a lot - we're talking $44,351,777.12 worth of "a lot," with most expenses charged to the American taxpayer.

As of March 2014, Obama has spent more time traveling internationally than any other president, taking 31 trips since assuming office in 2009. The 119 days spent overseas have cost taxpayers millions of dollars.

At the same point in their respective presidencies, George W. Bush had spent 116 days on 28 trips, Bill Clinton had spent 113 days on 27 trips and Ronald Reagan had spent 73 days on just 14 trips.

Comment: $44 million would be a great deal if they didn't come back!

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Bad Guys

Civilians were killed in New Zealand-US raid on Afghan village

Tom Peters
World Socialist Web Site
Sat, 05 Jul 2014 02:52 UTC
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© Unknown
An investigation by journalist Jon Stephenson, broadcast on Maori Television on Monday, found that a raid on an Afghan village on August 22, 2010, involving New Zealand, US and Afghan soldiers, resulted in 21 casualties, all of them innocent civilians.

According to the report - based on interviews with survivors, NGOs and Afghan government officials, and cell phone videos of the dead - six people were killed, including a three-year-old girl, and 15 were wounded.

The night-time raid on the village of Tirgiran in Baghlan province was in retaliation for an insurgent attack on New Zealand soldiers in neighbouring Bamiyan province on August 4 that killed Lieutenant Tim O'Donnell.

The US-led attack, which unleashed awesome firepower against an apparently defenceless village, was typical of the operations of the occupation forces. The war, which has lasted more than 12 years and caused tens of thousands of deaths, is a neo-colonial venture that faces widespread and entrenched opposition. The aim of such attacks is to terrorise the population into submission.

Comment: Oops we did it again, but not really. It was the others, or... there really were some (imaginary) Taliban over there, we kind of had to just blow up the whole village, or... we only killed the (imaginary present) insurgents in that village, and nobody else, or... we did it to protect ''our people'', ...

And the excuses and lies continue to pile up. Meanwhile, innocent people, including many children, keep getting killed on a daily basis by these ''heroes''.

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Dollar

End of the $Dollar: France lashes out against US dollar, calls for 'rebalancing' of world currencies


RT.com
Mon, 07 Jul 2014 06:26 UTC
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French Finance Minister Michel Sapin
The French government wants to break the monopoly the dollar has on international transactions after the country's largest bank, BNP Paribas, was slapped with a record $9 billion fine and a 1-year dollar trading ban.

Michel Sapin, the French finance minister, called for a "rebalancing" of the currencies used for global payments, saying the BNP Paribas case should "make us realize the necessity of using a variety of currencies" the Financial Times reports.

"We [Europeans] are selling to ourselves in dollars, for instance when we sell planes. Is that necessary? I don't think so. I think a rebalancing is possible and necessary, not just regarding the euro, but also for the big currencies of the emerging countries, which account for more and more of global trade," the finance minister told the FT at a conference over the weekend.

Comment: As Sott.net editors made clear on last night's Sott Talk Radio show, there is growing evidence that the USA's days as the dominant world power are numbered, and indeed, that the 'Number 1' position that the USA has enjoyed for the last 100 years has been an aberration, an anomaly that has caused untold suffering on the planet and only came about through manipulation, threats, dirty tactics and aggression.

The reality of the situation is that the majority of the world's resources are found in Eurasia, and that the nations of the Eurasian landmass have been kept artificially divided and 'down' by the machinations of the US elite and their ideological kin in Western Europe. With the resurgence of Eurasian nations, primarily Russia and China, and the increasing exposure of the US economy being backed mainly by military force rather than tangible assets, the old status quo is being seen as no longer tenable, and the USA is increasingly being exposed as a failing and desperate Empire that is acting in increasingly erratic and irrational ways as it sees the writing on the wall.

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